Yasin al-Hashimi

Yasin al-Hashimi (1884-21 January 1937) was Prime Minister of Iraq from 2 August 1924 to 26 June 1925 (succeeding Jafar al-Askari and preceding Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun) and from 17 March 1935 to 30 October 1936 (succeeding Jamil al-Midfai and preceding Hikmat Sulayman).

Biography
Yasin al-Hashimi was born in 1884 in Baghdad, Iraq, Ottoman Empire to a tribe of Sunni Muslim Turks, although his family claimed that they were descended from Muhammad. In 1902, he graduated from the Ottoman Military Academy in Istanbul, and he joined an underground Arab society of Ottoman Army officers known as the "Covenant Society". He refused to join the future King Faisal I of Iraq in the Arab Revolt, however, and he fought for the Ottomans during World War I. In 1917, he led an Ottoman division in Galicia during the repulse of the Russian Empire's offensive, and he was promoted to Major-General. In 1918, he fought at the First Battle of Amman in present-day Jordan, and he was wounded there; he ended the war in a Damascus hospital. Faisal made him President of the Military Council upon entering Damascus, and he opposed rule by France and the United Kingdom, seeking to add 12,000 troops to the army of the Arab Kingdom of Syria. The British under Edmund Allenby scotched his plans, and Iraq would become a protectorate of England.

al-Hashimi was involved in Iraqi nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, being elected Prime Minister in 1924 and holding the post for a year; in 1935, he was elected again. Fellow Iraqi nationalist Rashid Ali al-Kaylani served in cabinet positions under al-Hashimi, and the two of them formed the National Brotherhood Party to oppose colonial rule in Syria and Mesopotamia. However, Kurdish nationalist Bakr Sidqi led a coup against him in 1936, forcing al-Hashimi out of office; he died in exile in Lebanon a year later.